Devotion #6: Daily Faith

Google defines faith as “complete trust or confidence in someone or something.” Every day, we see this definition in action. We have faith that our alarm clocks will go off at the correct time. We have faith that our cars will start. We have faith in the roads we drive on. I could keep going on and on about all the things we put our faith in. As Christians, we have someone much more important in which we put our faith: God. So, what does it look like when we truly put our faith in God?  

Romans 4:19-21 says, “He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah’s womb. No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.” 

Romans chapter 4 focuses on one part of the story of a man named Abraham. Abraham and his wife Sarah had not had any children, but they desperately wanted one. God came to Abraham and made a promise that Sarah would bear a son, and through this son, a great nation would come. There was one problem, though. Abraham and Sarah were old and well past the age of having kids. This caused them to doubt God and what He had promised to them. Even through that doubt, Abraham had faith in God and what He had promised. Romans 4:18 says, “In hope he believed against hope.” Just as God promised, Abraham and Sarah were blessed with a son who they named Isaac, even though they were about 100 and 90 years old. Isaac became the beginning of a great nation.  

I do not believe that any of us will be having kids at those ages, so what does the story of Abraham and Sarah mean for us today? Well, just like Abraham and Sarah, we will face impossible situations, ones where we do not understand God’s plan and where it seems like there is no hope. However, just like Abraham, we are called to have faith in God. Abraham’s faith was “counted to him as righteousness.” As Romans 4:22 states, His faith justified him before God, and the same will happen to us. We must have full faith in God that He has, can, and will keep His promises, and because of that full faith in Him, we are saved.